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Originally posted by DST Love:
Don't get me started about corporate america. I can't say much about non-profit, but corporate america is the worst. My boyfriend and I talk about how awful it is everyday. We both make great money but sometimes it just doesn't seem worth it. For me more than him. I am an accountant and I hate it. I used to be an auditor and I'd be lucky if I didn't work 55-60 hours a week or more or be out of town at the snap of someone's finger literally. People in corporate america definitely look at one another as machines and not human beings.
When I was an auditor out on a client, my sister, back in Illinois (I'm in Georgia), had been rushed to the hospital for an illness she had had for a couple of years and it was pratically life or death. So I tell my senior on that client that my boyfriend and I would be driving back to Illinois the next day and why. He had the nerve to say, "you sure you have to go? You can't stay another day". I thought I was going to drop kick him right there at the client site. Needless to say, I left that job a few weeks later.
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DST Love, I feel ya!
I am an accountant and I am leaving the profession. I used to do audits with firms like PriceWaterhouseCoopers and KPMG. IMHO it was a VERY Dilbertlike experience and the managers and partners WOULD NOT talk TO me, only AT me through the senior auditor. That pi$$ed me off to the Nth degree. The fact that I was driving up and down the state of Ohio doing audits for these hick towns where if you seen ONE black person, it was truly a blessing, didn't help matters. One women in such a town saw my leftover fried chicken lunch and actually said, "You black people got to have your chicken." What the freak? But I digress.
Currently I am with a nonprofit agency working on an MBA, and while the pay is meager by comparison, the camraderie and love radiating through the agency is worth it. I am looking for another career, but I wish I could take every employee with me, I luv 'em that much.
DST Love, if you like to relate your experiences or career plans or options privately, you may email me if you wish. In the meantime, keep praying to God for something better.
God bless you.
RM